COPS probing the fatal shootings of a teacher and three children at a Jewish school are hunting three soldiers sacked over claims they were neo-Nazis.

The men were all axed from their elite paratrooper regiment in 2008 after a photo surfaced of them giving Nazi salutes in front of a Swastika flag.

Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, 30, his two sons Aryeh, three, and Gavriel Yissacher, six, as well as eight-year-old Miriam Monsonego were shot dead by a motorbike gunman outside Ozar Hatorah college in Toulouse, France, today.

Turns out to be a French Muslim of Algerian heritage, not evilneonaziswhowanttokillsixmillionmorejews. Fancy that. Oh the joys of diversity and multiculturalism.

Merah, a French national of Algerian descent, told police the killings at the Jewish school this week and the fatal shooting of three French paratroopers last week were to avenge the deaths of Palestinian children and a protest against French involvement in the Afghanistan war.